Mr Tijjani Tumsah, the Vice-Chairman of the Presidential Committee on North-East Initiative, disclosed on Thursday that Federal government is working hard to reopen Government Girls’ Secondary School (GGSS), Chibok, Borno state where Boko Haram abducted 276 schools in April 2014.

According to Tumsah the Federal Government is scheduling the re-opening of the college for normal academic activities in the 2017/2018 session.

Tumsah assured that all necessary security measures were being taken to avert a recurrence of the April 2014 incident.

“We intend to finish with the school before next session and make it functional for educational activities to pick up.

“We have varieties of programmes, including psycho-social and counselling programmes for women and girls and community engagements.

“In terms of the structure itself, the school has to be fortified in terms of early warning systems to protect the girls.

“A whole lot of issues that have been planned to ensure the safety and comfort of the students of the school judging by the previous unfortunate incident,’’ he said.

Tumsah said the committee would implement relevant programmes that would boost education, which had suffered a setback through Boko Haram activities in the North-East.

He said the committee was contemplating suitable programmes that would help in de-radicalising the youth in keeping with the Muhammadu Buhari administration Plan of Action.

He said some the activities would include providing youths opportunities to acquire vocational skills as well as the adoption of steps that would address the causes of the insurgency and charting the way forward.